Right-of-center Americans have been ridiculing the vacuity of Sean Penn for years but he’s had his critics on the left as well and the Daily Beast recently joined that small group of left-wing sources critical of Penn with a devastating piece lambasting Penn’s pretensions at being a social commentator and journalist.

NEW YORK, —We had warned that Boko Haram would continue its tradition of killing Nigerian Christians on Christmas day. Last week marked the third straight year that the terror group has murdered Nigerian Christians in the church on a Christmas day.

CHICAGO,—Attorneys for Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project and Thomas More Society await decisions by federal and state courts on their motions for preliminary injunction to stop the State of Illinois and the Federal Government from imposing confiscatory fines and other legal sanctions on a Roman Catholic health management company for exercising their state and federal free exercise of religion rights not to be forced to pay for abortifacients, sterilization, contraception and the related counseling now being imposed upon non-exempt businesses by state and federal law.

Well, now that it’s clear that the Mayans are no better than Dick Morris at predicting the future, I’d like to offer some year end – if not world end – thoughts. As a principled conservative, I’m generally aggrieved at the state of the world, but as a Christian, I’m joyful even in sadness, for sadness comes from worldly equations, and joy from the promise of Eternal Life.

All through 2012 I kept telling myself that, if I could just wait it out until the elections, a majority of Americans would surely set things right by electing Mitt Romney, but we have since learned that he was a reluctant candidate who, if we are to believe his son—and I think we can—really didn’t want to get in the race, but thought the others in the primaries had little chance of winning.

BELLEVUE, WA – President Obama was absolutely correct when he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that “there will be resistance” to his extremist proposal to ban the most commonly-owned and popular rifles in America, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

President Barack Obama on national television on Sunday repeated his commitment to sign into law new gun-control legislation in the first year of his second term. One of the proposed laws is being introduced in the U.S. Senate by Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein from California on the first day the Senate returns to Washington.

Germany considers itself the environmental conscience of the world: with its nuclear phase-out and its green energy transition, the German government wanted to give the world a model to follow. Blinded by its own halo, however, Germany overlooked that others have to pay for this green image boost and are suffering as a result. Germany’s ‘eco-miracle’ simply used the power grids of neighbouring countries not only without asking for permission but also without paying for it. Now Poland and the Czech Republic have pulled the plug and are building a huge switch-off at their borders to block the uninvited import of green energy from Germany which is destabalising their grids and is thus risking blackouts.—Daniel Wetzel, Die Welt, 28 December 2012

By Guest Column Dr. Benny Peiser- Monday, December 31, 2012 - Full Story

Who has waivers from some of the provisions? That’s a question that should be asked and answered. However, getting to the truth isn’t an easy task. According to the Weekly Standard about half the special treatment is doled out to unions.

At the end of the year, many people take time to make charitable donations. But caring for those in need is a year-round responsibility—and when it comes to public policy, conservatives have an important opportunity to articulate an effective response to poverty and social breakdown in America.

By Heritage Foundation Jennifer Marshall- Monday, December 31, 2012 - Full Story

Doug Hagmann’s columns generate an interesting array of comments that span the spectrum, from belief to disbelief. Not surprisingly, some believers appear to have their doubts. All I can suggest is that people need to trust their instincts and never trust a politician.

Hope and Change, Hope and Change, Hope and Change… Millions of Americans were chanting totally mesmerized. Change at the speed of light is here and accelerating. Hope is fading away. How did we get here so fast? It did not happen overnight. We just failed to pay attention.

If a leftist expressed new-age spirituality and uttered the Zen idea that he was one with the Universe, I’d certainly believe him. What else could explain liberals’ seeming inability to know where their body ends and someone else’s begins?

There are two types of things that we put money into; the things that we need and the things that we don’t. The former represent our physical needs and the latter our spiritual needs. Food for the body and food for the mind. We need to eat, but we don’t need to see a movie. We need a house to live in, but we don’t need a house of worship. We need a car to get to work, but we don’t need a painting on our wall once we get there.

What would it be like to be the highest paid athlete in the world, the toast of Boston, the winner of two Stanley Cups, the rich devil-may-care playboy? Then to find yourself broke, alcoholic, drug addicted and sleeping under bridges? In the space of 12 years this all happened to Derek “Turk” Sanderson.

Not only are we being subjected to the idiocy of television coverage about the “fiscal cliff”; Are you impressed the politicians are diligently working to strike a deal? They even stayed in Washington over the weekend.

Supposedly sulking, “deport myself”-promising Piers Morgan is CNN’s main hope of boosting the lowest television viewership among the cable networks. When CNN dives lower than MSNBC, losing out to the likes of Chris Matthews, they’ve got big problems.

Morgan is having a field day at least figuratively speaking, shooting up Americans ready to stand strong for their constitutional protected gun rights. Google it, Piers. It’s called the Second Amendment.

But is Piers Morgan all that passionately against gun owners, or is he spinning the cotton candy to get host network CNN nudged back up in the ratings?

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